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The future of windows is JavaScript. And no, I’m not kidding. Anyone who has used Office 365 in their browser can see that for many desktop things, you no lon
by MR4D 8y ago
The future of windows is JavaScript. And no, I’m not kidding.
Anyone who has used Office 365 in their browser can see that for many desktop things, you no longer need a framework. For everything else, it’s probably a custom library on top of DirectX anyway.
And I’m not saying I agree with this, but MSFT opened that door and others will follow whether they want them to or not.
- IceWreck 8y agoHell no. Whats wrong with plain old win32. Compiled software will almost always be faster than interpreted JS. Do we need a new system? UWP is more or less a flop, but the old way still works. Now, I don't use windows on a regular basis, but clearly something was wrong with the UWP UX design. But we don't need to replace it with a web based version of everything. Imagine electron based apps for your calculator....they'll be very very resource heavy.
- majewsky 8y agoOffice 365 sure is impressing from a technical standpoint. It's also frustratingly slow compared to desktop Office, in my experience.
- kjsingh 8y agolol am sorry JS is like a weed which can not grow much taller than the browser platform.
- MR4D 7y agoI’d say that The JS weed is growing the browser platform. But yes it’s a weed.